YOU CAN'T STOP THE SPARKLE

[cleolinda]

'New Moon' Smashes 'Dark Knight's' Opening Day Record!

Which means it's already made a shade just under one hundred million ($100M), which was my original entire-weekend prediction. (ETA: Or wait, the midnight screenings are included? $72M is a bit better. Although that's still more in 24 hours than Twilight made its entire first weekend.) I'm officially revising my estimates up to $170M now. (Well, in that case, let's take it down to $140M.)

You know, I'm not surprised, exactly. It was tracking above TDK all week, and it's already the highest-grossing advance ticket seller and midnight opening. And it may be that the mainstream won't turn out the rest of the weekend. But the official @Twilight account on Twitter has been RTing messages from fans saying that, as of mid-afternoon yesterday, they had already seen the movie four and five times. Four and five times. I understand, sociologically, psychologically, emotionally, financially, why it's happening. I'm not surprised, precisely. But I'm kind of astounded.


(Zomg e-book! The Annotated Movies in Fifteen Minutes: Wizards!)

Comments

[idrach.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying this to be nasty, but I honestly thought the Host was just a rehash of Twilight. It had a lot of the same themes and needed editing, just like Twilight. I know a lot of people think it's better, and stylistically it might be a little better, but it was too similar to Twilight for me to take seriously. Essentially, what I'm trying to say is... Meyer has yet to show that she can do stories other than Twilight. I think we should wait and see what else she has to write, like the ghost story she mentioned or the cannibalistic mermaids. But to be fair the Host has done extremely, extremely well- it hit #1 on the NYT bestseller list and is going to be adapted into a movie by the man who made Gattaca. So she may yet become known for something other than vampires.

And I don't think that's pretentious at all!